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Making a map to make a point. The entire population of Canada (about 35 million) would fit into each area of the continental U.S. map marked “Canada.” So, demonstrating density, each separate area labeled “Canada” comprises approximately 35 million of the United States’ 315 million people.

Sally Satel, psychiatrist and public intellectual: Addicts can be responsible. She argues, swiftness, sureness, transparency, and fairness of reward and punishment, combined with expectation for achievement—are a potent prescription for behavior change in just about anyone.

Can you state your thesis in one line? If not, don’t write it. Well, that’s not quite the message at lol my thesis, but it’s a good approach.

Phrenology actually got some things right before orthodox medicine did. Actual history is messier than tidy documentaries about the “march of science.”

Are TV and cell phones sunset industries? In the sense of industries from which not much more innovation may be expected? Maybe, say some industry watchers.